AWKWARD ZOMBIE

WHOOPS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THIS.
The Strength Arcana social link (Kou's Side) actually has to do with his issues with his adopted parents.
The Moon Arcana social link (Ai) has Ai pretty much emotionally blackmailing you into dating her. She threatens to jump off the roof of the school building at one point. She tells the P4 protag all about how she used to be overweight. She decided to change her personality when her dad got rich, but hasn't really succeeded, and still has self-esteem issues.
The basketball game thing actually didn't occur in the game at all. In fact, you never do anything beyond practice. Also, the fight with Chie was anime-only too. Chie and Ai never even interact in game.

The Moon social link and Strength social link are connected in that you can meet Ai by attending basketball/soccer practice.
Also, she has a crush on Kou/Daisuke (depending on which club you chose) but Daisuke has absolutely no interest in women (which is what his side of the link is about) and Kou already has a crush on Chie. (which only mentioned a few times, he never acts on it)

Not hanging out with Ai or skipping sports club practice doesn't affect the other link once you've met her, also.

Yeah, the Strength and Moon arcana lines were compressed because in the next episode those arcana went into the book.

EDIT: And then I busted up laughing when the delivery girl showed up during the chase scene calm as can be.

EDIT: And then pelvic thrusts to begin the new episode. Holy fuck what I am just dying over here.

FINAL EDIT: Okay you know what I'm just going to forget I ever saw Episode 7 and that it even exists because my face was frozen in the WTF expression during the whole thing. AND STOP PELVIC THRUSTING, SHADOW KANJI. Though the protagonist's remarks were suitably hilarious.

HEY! Shadow Kanji is awesome. Only a manly man can wear a shit ton of flowers.

The flowers were fine because at least they covered something unlike that loincloth.

Also the protagonist is getting a lot snarkier and direct, the delivery girl is suitably awesome, and the adults are actually not dumb as a bag of rocks in that they've noticed something is up with these kids knowing things they shouldn't. Oh, and the blank-faced expression on the protagonist when he got kicked into the water was hilarious.

And thus it was added to my rotation. The whole camping trip was pretty great. Poor Kanji.

And now we're at a strip club. Geez these teenagers are hiding some perverted selves. That includes the protagonist who somehow manages to get away with it.

I'm not sure I agree with all of this.
The way I see it, Light changed when he got the Death Note. At first, he shows genuine fear at the idea of having to hurt people close to him, such as his family, and in the second part of the manga he's even shaken up by his sister's kidnapping (and not just because it endangers him). In my opinion, he has some kind of split persona, when he is both willing to manipulate and kill people to get closer to his goals, and suffers of it at the same time. He doesn't sleep anymore, various events manage to push him over the edge of nervous breakdown. Even after the death of his father, while he says that it was stupid of him to hope to better the world with such naive ideals, he also says that he did everything he did in order to create a world where people like his father could live in peace without fear of "bad" persons (from bullies to criminals) ruining it.
I think he both does and doesn't care for the people that die because of his actions, minus the ones he deems unfit to live (criminals). He cares about them because he would have liked to give them a "perfect" world in which they could have lived in peace, and he doesn't care about them because they are necessary sacrifices to create that "perfect" world. He has delusions of grandeur because he wishes to be able to manage the way everyone lives and thinks, and to protect the "good" people from the "bad" people. He wants to be a God because anything else wouldn't be able to achieve that goal. He's full of himself because he wants to be perfect and selfless.

As for L, he sticks to ideals of justice that are pretty basic, as in: you shall not kill, etc., even though he does sacrifices people too (such as the fake L). He doesn't consider the chase after Kira as a game but as a war, and he is very rustled when he loses battles, not just because he's immature. He did become a detective to stop criminals after all. I think he feels responsible for these deaths but rationalizes them by telling himself that he isn't the one that killed them. That being said, it seems like he doesn't consider lost human lives as more than "casualties" that don't really affect him. But even then, he's visibly upset at the deaths of his subordinates and colleagues, people he's personally involved with (as shown with Ukita's death or Watari's death). I think it's his antisocial tendencies that cause that.

Don't get me wrong, it's clear both of them use people for their goals, are responsible for the deaths of many, and that Light doesn't respect human life and is a mass murderer, but I don't think they're just sociopathic killers that are playing a game of cat or mouse either. There's more to them.

Episode 14 of P4 now. This is hilarious, especially the protagonist's face when the carp explodes out of the water.

Prepare to laugh your booty off on the next episode then, it's hilarious

Episode 15!

-Oh hey this is where Persona 3 was at. And there's a familiar face. Two actually since the nutty occult nurse showed up.
-You gotta be kidding me. Isn't this the hotel where the Lovers Shadow was hiding? Poor Akahiko and Junpei. And Kuma ya daisies pervert.
-Can't blame them after seeing your Shadow, Kanji.
-PERSONA 3 BATTLE MUSIC YES.
-Narukami you've had enough alcohol. Stop unbuttoning your shirt.
-Take it like a man Kanji.
-Narukami be pimpin' and he doesn't even care.
-Dammit Yukiko you're cut off. You too Rise. Narukami quit being an enabler.
-Kuma's a pig in every sense of the word.

thats it im going to start watching this again

Okay I'm pretty sure Naoto is a girl. Don't have any proof yet and the voice is masculine enough, but I dunno.

you've never played the game i'm guessing

Nope. And hunch has just been proven correct. Also I'm guessing she binds because of the incident with the medical reports and Rise's reaction to a particular number.

Looks like we're going to have to play a Children's Card Game.